Journey(s) to the East-travels, trajectories, and transnational Chinese theatre(s).

The notion of transnationalism represents a key theoretical paradigm in most contemporary studies of Chinese-language literature, film, and the visual arts. Scholarship in Chinese-language theatre, however, is still largely shaped by national or mono-regional patterns of analysis and criticism. This...

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Publicado en:Postcolonial Studies Vol. 13; no. 4; pp. 351 - 367
Autor principal: Ferrari, Rossella
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec2010
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